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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do some of the guards do to the animals?
(a) They play with them.
(b) They try to catch them.
(c) They torment them.
(d) They feed them.

2. What happens to Rowe's camp?
(a) It is invaded.
(b) It is bombed again.
(c) It is captured.
(d) It is destroyed.

3. Rowe is told that he and the other prisoners can do what?
(a) Steal.
(b) Grow vegetables.
(c) Hunt.
(d) Fish.

4. He says that the men aboard the chopper are kept busy during that initial ride, doing what?
(a) Answering his questions.
(b) Opening cans of c-rations for Rowe.
(c) Listening to him.
(d) Talking to him.

5. Rowe hastily comes up with a cover story, saying that he'd been trying to find better fishing grounds and that he'd set lines along the way. What is enough to plant doubt that Rowe is trying to escape?
(a) The lines he has in his hands.
(b) The way in which he tells the story.
(c) His fluent Vietnamese.
(d) The presence of lines, though someone else's.

6. What does Rowe have an opportunity to do?
(a) Stay in the camp.
(b) Kill one of his captors.
(c) Run away.
(d) Move one of his captors away from the main group.

7. How are the next nights a nightmare of pain?
(a) He is taunted by the Vietcong soldiers.
(b) He has large welts all over his body from the whip.
(c) He is dying from starvation.
(d) He receives thousands of mosquito bites.

8. What is Rowe given all the way to their first destination?
(a) Water.
(b) Food.
(c) Rest.
(d) Medical care.

9. What threatens the camp?
(a) Famine.
(b) The American Army.
(c) Disease.
(d) Fire.

10. When Rowe is some distance from camp, he encounters whom?
(a) Vietnamese civilians.
(b) His own guards.
(c) The U.S. Army.
(d) The enemy.

11. How does Rowe draw attention to himself?
(a) He goes into a clearing and waves his white mosquito netting.
(b) He goes into a clearing and jumps up and down.
(c) He yells in English.
(d) He begins to scream.

12. Alone, Rowe is initially ___________________.
(a) Depressed.
(b) Angry.
(c) Excited.
(d) Nervous.

13. Does Rowe receive serious punishment?
(a) No, because he says what the Vietcong want to hear.
(b) No, because his guards are relieved that he is returned to them.
(c) No, because he is now a member of the Vietcong army.
(d) Yes, because he had tried to escape.

14. When does Rowe believe it seems worse to be on the verge of death?
(a) At the hands of the Vietcong.
(b) When he has lasted this long.
(c) When he cannot defend himself.
(d) At the hands of Americans.

15. Why does Rowe remain on a loose quarantine?
(a) The military is worried about his safety.
(b) The outcome of tests are pending.
(c) He is ill.
(d) He needs time to adjust to life again.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before landing, someone notes what about Rowe?

2. What are part of the first meal Rowe is able to order?

3. What prompts a flood of emotion, including tears, for Rowe?

4. What will be sold by the guards?

5. Using their own slang, what does Rowe ask the men to do?

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